Executive Focus LLC is a management consulting firm that specializes in executive coaching and leadership team development. We leverage a network of professionals to assist with client projects and initiatives. If the project is expansive and requires resources, we have them available. If the project requires a solution better provided elsewhere, we will tell you and refer you. We only take on work where we know we can add significant value.

Glenn O’Dell is President of Executive Focus and is in his 15th year of owning his own business. He brings his clients over twenty years of diversified leadership, executive coaching, consulting, and training experience with proven results in driving organizational change through staff, line, and consulting roles. He understands the challenges of leading an organization first hand from both the financial and human sides, and can create the practical steps that achieve the performance enhancements for his clients.

Glenn’s strong P&L orientation focuses on the executives’ agenda as well as their development to ensure their growth links to the top and bottom lines. His strengths are developing a trusting relationship, bringing perspective to tough issues, and creating concrete next steps. He has been trained as a counselor, trained as a coach, and has run an entire organization with full P&L accountability. This allows him to be the confidential trusted advisor, sounding board, and coach to a large number of executives where he balances support with challenge. He helps his clients master the essential leadership, management, and interpersonal capabilities critical for their current role as well as their next position.

Glenn has experience as executive coach and consultant to CEOs, CIO’s, senior executives, middle managers, and leadership teams.

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As an interim assignment, he took a hands-on leadership role leading an $8M customer contact center as Vice-President/General Manager with full P&L responsibility. This was during a post-merger integration phase and involved successfully resolving significant business issues including retention, service quality, morale, and profitability. In this role, Glenn managed 225 employees, coached senior executives, and satisfied over 900 corporate clients, including Toys-R-Us, Pitney Bowes, Pratt & Whitney, and Bon Appetit. Through key strategic initiatives he transformed this highly entrepreneurial organization into a corporate site, increasing Gross Margin and EBITDA, and enabling his CEO client to exceed his acquisition buy-out goal 30%.

Glenn earned his Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN and his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Rutgers University. He is certified in the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), OPQ, Hogan HPI and HDS, certified in 360-degree instruments from Lominger, MRG, and The Hay Group (ESCI), and is a Hewlett-Packard Certified Technical Professional for UNIX and Networking. He is an ex-Chapter Board member and presenter for the Association for Psychological Type, and holds membership in the Bay Area Executive Development Network, SHRM, ICF, and the Genentech Coaching Community.

Glenn lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is passionately into windsurfing, mountain biking, motorcycling, Porsche Driver Education track events, and is an executive level sponsor of various charities.

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